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Nothing About a 0.7nm Chip Is 0.7 Nanometers

These days, semiconductor news is all over the headlines, and technology node numbers get thrown around all the time. You have probably seen “4 nm”, “3 nm”, or the latest “0.7 nm” node which IBM unveiled recently, in articles at least once. What exactly are they measuring?

July 16, 2026 · Emil Goh